Last week, Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) urged U.S. Secretary of State
Antony Blinken to combat the rise of domestic extremist activity by desig


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U.S. Lawmaker Urges State Department To Consider Foreign Terrorist
Designations For Overseas White Supremacist Groups

 

(New York, N.Y.) — Last week, Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) urged
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State Antony Blinken to combat the rise of domestic extremist activity by
designating more than a dozen white supremacist groups abroad as Foreign
Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). If implemented, the designations will enhance
U.S. law enforcement’s capabilities “to engage and flag the Americans who
contact, support, train, and join these [white supremacist extremist] groups.”

 

Representative Slotkin specifically asked Secretary Blinken to consider
listing more than a dozen organizations, including the neo-Nazi groupsNordic
Resistance Movement
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National Action <[link removed]>.
Other groups identified in the letter includeAtomwaffen Division Deutschland
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,Azov Battalion
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,Blood & Honour <[link removed]>,
Combat 18 <[link removed]>, Feuerkrieg
Division <[link removed]>,
Generation Identity
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Northern Order,Order of Nine Angles
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Movement <[link removed]>, and
Sonnenkrieg Division
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The letter also noted that the previous administration
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listed three leaders of the white supremacist extremist groupRussian Imperial
Movement (RIM)
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April 2020 as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) in a movepraised
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by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) as “an important step forward in
curbing violent ethno-nationalist and white supremacist movements, which are
thriving in Europe and the United States.” An FTO qualification, however,
requires more stringent criteria to be met than a SDGT.

 

To read CEP’s resource European Ethno-Nationalist and White Supremacy Groups,
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To read CEP’s resource White Supremacy Groups in the United States, please
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